Vote for Kiva for the Members Project Award

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[Liliane]

Kiva Friends - (I got this notice through Facebook-kiva causes today)

Our project "Loans That Change Lives", is currently a contestant for the Members Project Award! Please support us and help our organization win $1.5M through popular vote. Here's what you do:

If you are an American Express cardholder, here is a chance to win big bucks for Kiva.

1) Visit the following site: http://www.membersproject.com/project/view/P6KQEI

2) Login and nominate "Loans that Change Lives"

If you are not a card holder - either sign up for an Amex card and vote, or help us spread the word!

All votes should be in by September 1st.

[Tatiana]

Thanks lspenle! The good news is that for now you do not need to be a cardholder or to sign up for a card, you can nominate Kiva anyway with a guest account to help them get in the top 25. Later, when the real voting takes place you need to be a card holder and live in the U.S.:

Eligibility: Any person with a valid email address can join Members Project's online community and show support for Projects. To submit a Project or vote for your favorite Project, however, you must be a legal resident of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia, at least 15 years of age, and the holder in good standing of an American Express® Card issued by American Express in the United States, whether you are a basic or Additional Cardmember ("Cardmember"). Additionally, if you are submitting a Project you cannot be an employee, or an immediate family member (i.e., spouse, parent, sibling, dependent, or spouse of parent, sibling or dependent, regardless of where he/she lives) of an employee, of American Express, or any of its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies, advertising or promotion agencies, independent contractors, or any promotion partners of American Express directly involved with Members Project (collectively, the "American Express Parties").

Liz wrote this message in the anouncement part of the forum. I would have liked to write a reply there but that isn't possible.

Kiva’s project "Loans That Change Lives", is currently a contestant for the Members Project Award! Please support us and help our organization win $1.5M through popular vote. Here's what you can do to help Kiva win:

1) Visit the following site:
http://www.membersproject.com/project/view/P6KQEI

2) Click on “Nominate this Project” 

3) Choose the final option (“Sign in as guest”) and continue through the short process

4) If your nomination does not go through, click on “Recently Viewed” on the right navigation bar and nominate “Loans That Change Lives”

Every $1 donated to Kiva’s Operational Expenses has led to $8 in loans.  If Kiva wins $1.5M, this would help us facilitate $12M in loans!  Since the average loan size on Kiva is $700, here is a chance to help 17,000 entrepreneurs improve their lives in just a couple of clicks!

Thanks for your support!!

So for now everybody can nominate Kiva to get into the top 25, but later the voting is only for US cardholders.

[waywardcats]

Amidst the excitement on partial repayments, Kiva has also posted a reminder this morning for nominations on the American Express Members Project.

http://www.kiva.org/about/inside

Kiva?s project "Loans That Change Lives", is currently a contestant for the Members Project Award! Please support us and help our organization win $1.5M through popular vote. Here's what you can do to help Kiva win:

1) Visit the following site:
http://www.membersproject.com/project/view/P6KQEI

2) Click on ?Nominate this Project?

3) Choose the final option (?Sign in as guest?) and continue through the short process

4) If your nomination does not go through, click on ?Recently Viewed? on the right navigation bar and nominate ?Loans That Change Lives?

Loans that Change lives is currently in 29th place, only the top twenty-five go on to the final round.  Kiva has to add at least another 100 votes to move up into 25th place.  So, if you haven't already, please vote today!

-Kerry-

[dh]

Voting ended with Kiva in forty-first place with 1367 votes. Number 25 had 2072 votes and number 1 6991 votes. Final selections of the top twenty-five will be made by a board of advisors.

[Tomcat]

Hooray! Kiva made it into the top 25, just announced by American Express. As I understand it, only AMEX cardholders can vote in the next round. So if you have an AMEX card, go on over to the American Express website or directly to the MembersProject page and cast your vote.

http://www.membersproject.com/project/view/P6KQEI?cid=MP08_email_voting_top25email2

The list of competition doesn't seem all that daunting, so maybe we do have a chance to get some funding for Kiva.

[QueenOfHearts]

Okay done...can we vote more than once???

Queen

[dh]

You can change your vote up to the deadline, but only the last vote counts.

[Liliane]

Kiva is currently in 4th place out of the top 25! Each of the top 5 places will get money, but of course the higher ranked, the more money, so vote, vote, vote.

[Tomcat]

Oh noooo! 

Kiva has fallen to sixth place! I hope that everybody with an American Express card has voted for Kiva.

[Canadian Here]

Hi!

I have a AMEX Card and I tried many times to vote for KIVA. All I kept getting was a blank page or an error message. 

Sorry, but I tried at least a half a dozen times.

Lorna